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Israel Potter well merits the present tribute a private of Bunker Hill who for his faithful services was years ago promoted to a still deeper privacy under the ground with a posthumous pension in default of any during life annually paid him by the spring in ever-new mosses and sward.Michael Rogers - Library JournalPublished in 1855, Melville's fictional biography is his only historical novel. It tells the story of Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War hero and Bunker Hill survivor who ultimately ends up on the streets of London. Melville mixes fact with fiction and real characters (Ben Franklin) with invented ones.
